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Wired: Crusoe Finding Some Homes

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 21, 2000

Transmeta Corporation has its first official partner for
the Crusoe chip.

“Supporting CEO Dave Ditzel’s claims that “If it has a battery
and a Web browser, it’s going to be built with Crusoe,” Diamond
Multimedia has announced that it will use the Crusoe in a
forthcoming Web Pad device….”

“Transmeta demonstrated several Web Pads yesterday, but will not
confirm whether one of them was a prototype of the Diamond product.
Ditzel promised that “about a dozen companies” will soon be using
the Crusoe chip in mobile products.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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